Strategies to increase the sugar concentration and overall sugar recovery from steam pretreated wheat straw and corn stover
Wheat straw is available in western Canada and it is a potential feedstock for bio-ethanol production as it can be effectively fractionated into simple sugars using acid catalyzed, steam pretreatment followed by enzymatic hydrolysis. Steam pretreatment is usually a compromise whereby conditions that...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43591 |